AFGHAN REVOLT
REGARDED AS SERIOUS.
MORE HEAVY FIGHTING. AEROPLANES BOMB VILLAGE. United Press Association—By Electric TelegrapQ Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) .Received noon to-day. DELHI, Deo. 7. Reports from the frontier _ indicate that the Afghan revolt is serious. Fighting continues round Jalalabad!, where the rebels attempted to undermine the town wall!. They were attacked by troops under the Afghan commander, whose son wag captured and shot.
Hugiani tribesmen are holding up Ihe Kabuli road at Gandamaik, thus preventing movements of Afghan reinf oroeinenit'S.
Afghan taenopJanes bombed the Shinwari villages round Jalalabad, causing many casutlties. During the fighting on December 3, the Shinwaria had eight hundred casualties and many were captured.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1928, Page 7
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109AFGHAN REVOLT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1928, Page 7
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